America’s Next Top Model winner Adrian Curry talks about how breast implant extract changed her perception — and her life.
“Five years since breast implant explantation and I’ve undergone a complete metamorphosis,” Curry, 42, wrote via X on Monday, January 6. “The first year I cried all the time. I had lost over 90% of my natural breasts to necrosis and refused to gain fat. I didn’t want to risk my health for vanity anymore. I had a crash course in being humble and bare.”
“Breast implant extract,” also called “breast implant removal” or “explant,” is a surgical procedure in which a doctor removes previously placed silicone or saline breast implants, according to Cleveland Clinic. While some people have surgery to remove the implant due to hardening of the tissue around the implant or other complications, others may have surgery to replace old implants with new ones.
Curry described her own grueling surgery and post-op process on Monday, sharing that her husband, Matthew RoadI had to “cut out all my stitches due to remote living and the weather.”
“I was brought to my knees in humility and walked through the fire of my dying vanity,” she continued. “It took them a solid 2 years to settle in and look human. My husband was my rock….and I can’t believe how unfazed he was by my blunt words.’
Five years later, Curry, who won the first cycle of the America’s Next Top Model in 2003 – is “happy and healthy” and wouldn’t “wish plastic surgery” on her “worst enemy”.
“It did nothing to alleviate my body dysmorphia and only gave me years of suffering,” she explained, adding: “Be okay with who and what you are. In my case, with a lot LESS than what I was.”
After her vulnerable post, people flocked to the comments section to praise Curry for being so open about her experience with plastic surgery. When a fan thanked the model for “sharing what I can’t imagine are easy things to share,” Curry replied, “If I can stop someone from mutilating their healthy bodies with this…then it wasn’t wasted lesson. “
5 years post breast implant explantation and I have undergone a complete metamorphosis. The first year I cried all the time. I had lost over 90% of my natural breasts to necrosis and refused to gain fat. I didn’t want to risk my health for vanity anymore. I had a crash course to be… pic.twitter.com/bXZCTOQeWd
— Adrianne Curry (@AdrianneCurry) January 6, 2025
A second person revealed that they sent Curry’s post to their daughter, who was considering getting implants herself. “Dear God, I hope she doesn’t mutilate her body,” Curry replied.
Elsewhere in the comments section, Curry admitted that she considers herself “100 percent responsible” for her breast implants and for making what she now sees as an “uneducated and life-changing decision.”
The former reality star also clarified that she didn’t get the extract because of cancer or illness, but because of “stupidity, vanity and body dysmorphia,” noting that she originally got the implants because half of her breasts were “conclave,” but they didn’t t “fix it”.
Curry became famous in the debut season of ANTM in 2003 where she got a modeling contract, brand deals and more. After nine years in the fashion industry — and a stint on the VH1 reality show My Fair Brady with the first husband Christopher Knight – she moved away from the industry. She and Rhode went on to tie the knot in 2018.
Curry took to social media last month to reveal that she and Rhode have been living “VERY apart” for the past seven years. “I can go months without hanging out (with) anyone but my husband,” she shared via X at the time. “My life has been lived in the thundering, glorious silence of the desert.”
She added: “Now I get overwhelmed easily in big groups/cities. It can take days to recover from the experience.”
“I’m more down to earth than I’ve ever been in my life,” she explained. “My awareness of the forest and what is in it around me is quite acute.”
A few hours later, Curry shared another image from her Montana paradise via Instagram, captioning the shot: “There’s nowhere to be that isn’t somewhere. You should be. It’s easy. All you need is love.
